June 2026 Recruitment Update

As of June OCTOPUS has a total of 805 participants randomised!

Thank you to all sites for maintaining such a good rate of recruitment!

As of 29-June-26 there are 954 participants screened for Octopus and 805 randomised.

Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 29-June-26:

Site

Number Screened

Number Randomised

UCLH(London)

261

226

Edinburgh

89

72

Cardiff

33

28

Southampton

106

75

Leeds

47

42

Sheffield

65

60

Belfast

88

77

Coventry

66

58

Poole

34

31

Cambridge

13

11

Nottingham

22

19

Newcastle

34

24

Morriston, Swansea

15

15

Bristol

33

29

Queen's Hospital (Romford)

27

24

Pinderfields (Mid Yorkshire)

4

3

Ipswich

4

3

Royal Stoke (Stoke-on-Trent)

5

3

Darent Valley (Dartford)

0

0

Woolwich

0

0

Bradford

2

2

Royal Cornwall

0

0

Luton and Dunstable

1

0

John Radcliffe (Oxford)

0

0

Walton (Liverpool)

0

0

Griffiths, AUSTRALIA

3

3

TOTAL

954

805

 

Octopus is funded by the MS Society with supported funding from MS Australia and MSWA for the Australian extension Platypus